Pluto

What if sci-fi movies and literature have been lying to us all along? What if extraterrestrial beings (aliens) don’t have any superpowers and may well be, in essence, our mirror images, with the only difference being that technology in their world is so advanced that interstellar travel is possible for them?

Unfortunately, the film rarely walks through that door. Instead of embracing the limitless possibilities of its premise, 'Pluto' retreats into a safe, familiar narrative.

Just like Vicky (Neeraj Madhav), the protagonist of the sci-fi comedy Pluto, who befriends an alien, the movie also does not know what exactly to do with the alien character. This has to do with the nature of the alien.

Science fiction comedies often thrive on unlikely friendships. In Adithyan Chandrashekar's Pluto, that friendship is between a directionless Malayali youth and an alien who turns out to be just as much of a failure on his own planet.